One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty ...

An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...

PBS is heading into the ice. The public broadcaster has teamed with Australian public broadcaster ABC on natural history series Ages of Ice. The three-part series follows the brave scientists pushing ...

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As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Many animals are active during the winter months, searching for food, finding mates, starting families, or on the move. For ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

As visitors trudged through a snow-covered hiking trail at Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation on a cold Presidents Day, they learned about large animals that lived in Ohio during a ...

A group of fossil collectors have discovered a mass ice age fossil grave buried in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from ...